Dubliners Important Quotes & Sayings

it would go and hung in front of three fans, drying the sweat-soaked interior. At least I could remove the fur by myself; by then I'd discovered the secret. Howie's right paw was actually a glove, and when you knew the trick, pulling down the zipper to the neck of the costume was a cinch. Once you had the head off, the rest was cake. This was good, because I could change by myself behind a pull-curtain. No more displaying my sweaty, semi-transparent undershorts to the costume ladies. — Stephen King

I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day. — Jim Caviezel

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. — Hugo Black

Sometimes people put walls up to see who is strong enough to break them down! — Stephen Richards

Still, to be urged to write and to be urged to publish are two different things and nobody so far was urging her to do the latter. — Alan Bennett

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. — Will Rogers

So for, you know, for a good 20 years now I've been involved with veterans and soldiers and in support of them no matter what they're doing. — Gary Sinise

The profit on a good action is to have done it. — Seneca The Younger

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success. — C. Northcote Parkinson

I've been rapping since 1979. — Coolio

Try to fit in." Winter glanced at her, a moment of perfect clarity and even humor in the look. She was right. They were filthy. They were bloody. Winter was a well-loved princess who was prettier than a bouquet of roses and crazier than a headless chicken. Fitting in would be a miracle. — Marissa Meyer

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. — George Saintsbury

In summary, she did jump off a cliff, but she wasn't trying to kill herself. Bella's all about the extreme sports these days."
I flushed and turned my eyes straight ahead, looking after the dark shadow that I could no longer see. I could imagine what he was hearing in Alice's thoughts now. Near-drowings, stalking vampires, werewolf friends ...
"Hm," Edward said curtly, and the casual tone of his voice was gone. — Stephenie Meyer

Hitch your wagon to a star. — Ralph Waldo Emerson